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There’s three levels of this I’m going to try and help you understand the first is how to address the golf ball to give you a great chance of success in this shot so fundamentally on our green side shot we don’t need a wide base in fact
The Wider the base the harder it is to get our balance and our Mass over in our lead foot so the narrower the base the easier it is to get our upper body leaning just a little bit to the left such that you have about 80 to 90% of
Your body weight over your lead foot so the rule of thumb is stance for a greenside Chip Shot no wider than a club head the ball itself should be sitting adjacent to this blue stick here just on the inside of your Trail foot so what
Have we got so far we’ve got stance no wider than a club head allowing you to get 80 to 90% of your body pressure body mass up on your lead foot and then we have the golf ball sitting just inside your Trail foot now what posture to adopt far too often I
See people standing too far away and adopting a posture very similar to if you were hitting a full shot right I’m heavily forward flexed from the hips I’ve got the handle hanging low and I’ve got a relatively what we’ll call deviated angle between the hang of my
Arms and the Shar sitting on the ground but for basic greenside chips I want you to get much much closer I want it to feel like your eyes are just on the inside of the golf ball here so the distance from golf ball for a basic greenside chip should be much more
Similar in your position to a putt versus a let’s say a full iron shot so we’ve got a fourth element there now let me run through them again feet Club head apart 80 90% with our body weight leaning to the left we’ve got ball just
On the inside of our back foot and now we have a distance from the ball that’s relatively close so the ey line is just on the inside of the golf ball so that’s our body positioning now let’s talk about what our body should be doing in
The actual swing and the way I like in this is if we just shortened up the club to where both hands were down at the bottom of the grip then we’ve got some 3 to 4 in of grip pointing back at us I want you to feel like your arms stay
Extended their orientation or position relative to your body is always the same and all you do is you rotate your belt and your buttons backwards and forwards now to gather a sense for this what I need you to do is look down at the grip as you’re making these small turns a
Turn from maybe 8:00 on the back swing to maybe 4:00 or maybe even 3:00 on the follow through 8:00 to 3:00 and the only reason this club is swinging to those points on the clock is because my body is rotating it there and then clearly you would take that into the actual
Sh in doing so you have a really stable radius you have a really stable smooth kind of um soft wide shape um to the arc to the motion the club head makes and that means that to touch the ground in the same place each time should be relatively simple now there’s one last
Job and that’s the job of your hands what should they be doing in the stroke and this is a sensation that’s very very uh discreet so it’s a soft sensation such that I need you to understand a small amount of this goes a long way what your wrist should be doing is
Twofold your heel Pat on your left hand or your lead hand should be pushing down ever so slight on the grip as your right hand is pulling up on the grip just like so and two things will happen when I use those two Sensations the club is going to be
Pitched up outside the hand path so from a downline uh camera what you can see is that the grip starts on the inside of my white alignment rod and the club head starts on the outside and then when I’m up here at 8:00 I still have that same
Orientation clap it on the outside of the white stick grip on the inside in addition what I’ve done is I’ve taken my right wrist with an amount of flatness to it and then because of that motion I’ve established there’s a little bit of a cup called extension in the back swing
That helps me always narrow my Ark on the back swing and then land the club further to the left so here’s how it looks in live fire running it through real quick feet one Club head apart ball in the middle weight 80 to 90% on the left
I could lift my right foot if I wanted to that tells me I’ve got enough pressure in this direction here comes the body rehearsal eight to four 8 to three if I want to make it go a little further and here comes the wrist rehearsal there’s the wrist motion here comes the
Strike okay a very effective Chip Shot little scar in the turf which is normal when you’re uh Hitting off most surfaces and that’s normal we should look for that to some extent and a shot that’s 4 or 5 ft past the flag now to stand correctly and to have those elements in
The swing it should give rise to very good what I’ll call Landing Point control an ability to make sure that your club hits the ground in the exact spot where it needs to the exact spot where it needs to would be directly beneath the middle of the bowl on a
Basic Chip Shot now there’s one way to practice that Landing Point control and it’s to back up away from the bow you can see I have just a little bit more than one Club head space between my target line stick and my ball position indicator and the reason for that is I’m
Going to use this Gap here to practice my Landing point I want my club Landing slightly to the left of where it starts so my Leading Edge starts adjacent to my blue stick I’ve got my stance I’ve got my pressure I’ve got my body swing and
Wrist hinge and then I’m going to ensure whoops sometimes it’s necessary to make mistakes to learn that was clearly a mistake and then I’m going to cause the club to land further to the left than where it starts something that can help is visibility into exactly where that club
Starts look scratched Mark in my in the grass Club starts where that’s visible and then lands a bit more to the left if we need a stronger feeling we can actually use the stick where we stop with the club on the trail side of the stick create the body motion the wrist
Hinge and land with the club on the lead side of the stick some amount this is going to ensure you have confidence stepping up to the ball where you’re always going to make solid contact and go in so there’s your step-by-step guide to improving your not only understanding of
Concept but also the how to apply those Concepts to uh achieve more success on basic greenside chip shots
